Posted on 10/06/2004 11:59:50 AM PDT by MarlboroRed
But the thing to me, folks, is this election shouldn't even be close right now. The reason that it is close, they're reasons that have to do with things that, you know, Karl Rove and George W. Bush really don't have all that much to say about or control over. I mean demographics -- if we can be honest here for a second -- demographics are going to make it increasingly more difficult for Republicans to win in the future if things don't change as they are now. Many people who are voting have no context. I've got story after story today of voter fraud, registration fraud in Franklin County, Ohio. There are more registered voters than the Census Bureau says are eligible. We got a story out of Tampa today in the St. Petersburg Times about how a group that was formed in the 1970s, you may have heard of them, ACORN, is out trying to register voters two and three times and they've been caught in the act. You've got the Kerry campaign demanding 6,000 lawyers at these polling places but they will not allow Republican lawyers to be sitting side by side. But one of our problems here is that some of the people voting have no context today. They're just being registered and sent out there with marching orders essentially; World War II generation is dying off. We have people here because of the open border policy. We have people who have not assimilated into our culture. The liberal propaganda resonates with many of them, at least, a large number of them, maybe a growing number of them, because of the "we'll do everything for you" propaganda that liberals are known for.
I'm not trying to be defeatist. I don't want anybody to misunderstand. I just want you to know what the obstacles are here. Before everybody starts dumping on Bush and Rove and everybody else totally, there are some things that you have to understand. We still have history taught by the left in academia. The media has been teaching history for a long time and, you know, some inroads are being made there, tremendous inroads are being made. Progress is taking place but I want to be realistic about some of the obstacles that we still face. You can't have all this history taught by the left, including the media and expect to make huge, huge inroads. This is an election, maybe the first of its kind, with such dramatic demographic changes. And these demographic changes, as long as we don't do something about immigration, are going to continue.
Bush, I hate to say this -- but I mean you know this has been one of my bugaboos since 2000 -- on the domestic side Bush has spent like a liberal. He has spent and spent and spent and spent and spent. But, his problem is he dares to defend his country. So the fact that he dares to defend his country cancels out all the so-called "good," he's doing by spending like a liberal. And I think as I look back at the debate, one little comment about it, as you look back at Bush in that first debate, the last half of that debate, first half I'm telling you was a different story than the last half. There was a big momentum shift, but you look back at the second half of that debate, I think what you saw is the new tone. Maybe even a little bit prevent defense. Don't be mean. Let's not attack, let's not make people dislike us. Let's not get people angry at us and so forth. Of course just the opposite was called for, and just the opposite was what was necessary.
So, you know, I mean one of the examples of this demographic shift I can give you, just so you'll know, I'll give you an illustration. Orange County, California. Orange County always was relied on to offset the Democrat liberal dominance of Los Angeles. But now over 50% of Orange County is minority and immigrant and most of them vote Democrat, most of the new arrivals. The point is that the Republicans, I'm looking long-term here just to give you something to think about, not just this election and not primarily this election, but long-term. The Republicans just cannot expect to keep winning if every election we have to write off California. If every election we have to write off New York, Illinois, and maybe soon Florida, if those states become states that we have to write off simply because of demographic shifts, then you can't expect to win. One of those states, some of those states, are eventually going to have to be mined and cultivated if consistent national victories are to take place.
It is factually incorrect to say that we have "open borders". You may be of the opinion that we should budget more taxpayer dollars to border security, but to say that we have "open borders" is simply untrue.
I think the nation has shifted to the right some since Clinton got us a Republican Congress and Senate.
Though I agree there are problems with liberal indoctrination in schools, we hear more conservatives kids are being heard of than I can remember in a long time.
Illegal immigration sucks, but even American Latinos for the most part are greatly against illegal aliens.
I agree with Rush in part and disagree with him in part.
And I agree too that the subject of immigration has been effectively removed from constructive talk among Republicans, but I have no idea whether it's the Neo-Con pundits or what's driving that removal. Interested in your thoughts.
Well duh. The handwriting has been on the wall for the last 8-10 years. Rove & Co. know it but, nevertheless, I'm glad to see that Limbaugh is talking about it.
Sorry to be the one to say this but.......
Hispanics sort of want to take over no matter who is in charge. Greater Aztlan is not a fiment of your imagination.
I don't either. All we have to do is become more like the Democrat party, which we're doing. I can't say that I like it, though.
"Hey Rush, Arnie IS a Republican!"
lol...you forgot the /<sarcasm tag.
"If every election we have to write off New York"
Rush : Did you forget Rudy?
You really should have paid attention to the GOP Convention speakers.
See post #19
I'd say that this is about 4 years late.
I would like to see the hispanic vote broken down to who the Cubans voted for, the Mexicans voted for , the Porto Ricans, the Phillipinos voted for and ect. voted for. They should not lump all hispanics together.
So Rush is finally getting it? Is Rush actually letting people talk about this?
Agree. I am a second-generation Italian-American. All of my mother's and father's siblings were Democrats. All of my five brothers and sisters are Republicans. It doesn't take long folks. Unless you assume the brainwashed will either stay that way forever (some groups do) or are just stupid (most aren't).
That's the irony isn't it? The Republicans are providing the rope with which to hang themselves. Come on in third world poverty stricken potential Democrat voters. Not to mention forget the rule of law.
Ok, fine, I am of the opinion that we should budget massive amounts of additional money to border control. OK?
I don't buy the notion that the Republic party is doomed to not win a national election.
I don't either & I don't buy into the notion that the Dims have a lock on the Hispanic vote.
Finally gets it? Rush has said this before, this is not a new position for him.
This is perhaps the most important piece of socio-political analysis I've read in a long time. I live in California and have worked as an INS lawyer and seen what's happening. This state has already become a Third World country. At this point I honestly don't know if those states still less affected, where these demographic changes are just beginning (most of the South, Rocky Mountains except Colorado, perhaps New England) will have the foresight and desire to limit the change and preserve their integrity. If so, folks who want to live in a more traditional America will need to relocate to one of these places and try to focus on their personal/local lives. Problem is, the federal government Moloch will still be omnipresent. The only other alternative is another country like Australia that seems, at least under the Howard government, determined to prevent drastic change in national identity. Believe me folks, Rush is right - the long-term picture is not good.
Absolutely
The problem is with illegals getting access to public funds and that Federal law says we have to pay illegals for their children's education while they are here.
That federal law needs to change. Let them teach their kids in Mexico or elsewhere at their own expense.
Also, Bush is not a good in debates because he doesn't step on the oponent when he should.
Whether that is intentional or not, the results still usually are that nice guys finish last.
Had be been better in the last debate, I agree this election would be up for him by 9 points right now instead of 3-5 points.
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